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1
as in problem
something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned
dieting seems to be a fetish with some people
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as in talisman
something worn or kept to bring good luck or keep away evil
an archaeologist discovering an old animal tooth that may have been worn as a fetish
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Recent Examples of fetish
Stephen reveals the text conversation started with someone texting him about a heart condition, then immediately jumping into talking about getting into new fetishes.
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Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
For his near-decade on the political stage, Trump has made a fetish of plausible deniability.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
While Monica and Stephen were getting to know each other in the pods, Stephen confessed to a history of cheating, but didn’t admit to having any kinks or fetishes.
—Myisha Battle, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
Scorpio Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio leans into their fetishes and does not hold back.
—Lisa Stardust, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
For his near-decade on the political stage, Trump has made a fetish of plausible deniability.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
While Monica and Stephen were getting to know each other in the pods, Stephen confessed to a history of cheating, but didn’t admit to having any kinks or fetishes.
—Myisha Battle, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
Scorpio Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio leans into their fetishes and does not hold back.
—Lisa Stardust, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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If anything, 20th-century fights are emerging as plausible areas of bipartisan consensus, with Republicans seemingly receptive to labor and spending on infrastructure, while Democrats seem more open to deregulation and supply-side remedies to problems like housing and energy.Nate Cohn, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
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Thanks to the increasing number of people deciding to adopt their fur-babies, this number is slowly starting to go down, although the problem is still far from over.Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024
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The chocolate gelt—half-off at that point, since Hannukah was usually over—felt like exotic talismans.Joanna Solotaroff, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2024
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Isak is Newcastle’s talisman, so he is nailed on to start and will be the first-choice penalty taker too now that team-mate Callum Wilson (£6.9m) is injured again.Abdul Rehman, The Athletic, 19 Dec. 2024
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Sometimes, this obsession is driven by external pressures or the desire for validation.Mark Travers, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Like the TikTok identified by the Anti-Defamation League, these accounts shared photos and videos of the Columbine shooting and other mass shootings and appeared to show an obsession with these events, researchers said.Will Carless, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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Olejnik recalls Henderson rooting for his big head racer in the A’s in-game Hall of Fame mascot race (akin to the Milwaukee sausage race).Melissa Lockard, The Athletic, 21 Dec. 2024
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The name, Rising Phoenix, was a nod to the school's mascot and the university's belief in the transformational power of a college education.Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
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For spring/summer, a number of brands are adding to the sophisticated sportiness seen in ready-to-wear, fueling fashion’s post-Olympics athletic fixation.Madeline Fass, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2024
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The point being that there’s a lot of fixation on the low end of the funnel from finance teams, from marketing teams, that there’s all this leverage.Megan Poinski, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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These objects, often fashioned from stone, were thought to be imbued with magical properties and worn as amulets, although they were also sometimes used as impression seals.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Another decoration on the amulet is the nefer symbol, which in Egyptian means ‘good’ or ‘chosen’.Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2024
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Tucked inside Aardman’s putty preoccupations is a potent philosophical statement about the irreplaceable quality of the human touch.Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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Those with muscle dysmorphia usually have a belief or preoccupation that their body is weak, feeble, too small, or not muscular enough.Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
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After Peyton Manning repeatedly dismissed offers to set him up in any number of NFL booths, the ESPN gang in 2021 hashed out a deal with his Omaha Productions shingle that would spark a mania for alternative telecasts.Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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And in this year’s ten episodes, From just kept careening forward, giving its ensemble opportunity after opportunity to play the fear, mania, desperation, loyalty, and love that comes out of surviving horrible things together.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
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“Fetish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fetish. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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